Post 6: Milgrim Study

Five years from now, after I'm hopefully well equilibrated
financially and enjoyably stimulated by my career, I will likely still benefit
from lessons learned in PSY 1001.In
particular, remembering the upsetting results of the Milgrim study may help me
to be a better leader and moral individual.The striking results of the Milgrim study, which reported that 50% of its
participants while under the instruction of a single researcher administered
potentially dangerous voltages of electric shock to confederate participants,
revealed man's tendency for unquestioning compliance to authority.These findings are quite disturbing and
unsettling to me because, when honest with myself, I admit that I am compliant
to authority. I feel I would be
susceptible to control by an authority figure, and I would likely push myself
passed my moral boundaries by the instruction of a higher rank.Acknowledging my susceptibility to this form
of control is the first step to avoiding its affliction.Consciously defining my moral boundaries and
determining when or if I should ever overstep these boundaries may also help
safeguard me from authority influence.Also, the lessons in our textbook describing the roots for bystander
non-intervention help by dismissing pluralistic ignorance and the diffusion of
responsibility.Remembering that others
may feel the same way and that I am partially, if not equally responsible, for
the outcome produced by a groupin which
I participate, may help my avoid authority influences that might otherwise have
caused me to act in a manner against my moral nature.